Files Death Forgot

What if Death were exhausted and confined to a facility for Alzheimer's patients? What if he couldn't remember where he'd hidden the computer files containing names of the people scheduled to perish in the next global epidemic? Millions won't die. The Grim Reaper with a failing memory, a craving for chocolate chip cookies, and a penchant for old movies: Could this agent of death inadvertently save the world from mass annihilation...or would he remember and doom them all?